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Dozens
turn out to support fund-raiser for Asian tsunami victims
The Meadville
Tribune, March
11, 2005
Dozens of people filled the Academy Theatre on
Thurs-day night for a different kind of show.An
“evening out for a good
cause” was how Bill Williams of Meadville described
the auction for the André Francis tsu-nami relief
project that he attended with his wife, Suzie. |
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News
Hits
The Georgetown Voice, February
15, 2005
Georgetown Students for Tsunami Relief united over
70 local financial supporters at a fundraising gala
last Friday. "Waves of Hope" raised $3,276
for the victims of the tsunami that hit SE Asia on
Dec. 26. Students from Georgetown, George Washington,
and Johns Hopkins Universities, along with members
of the Georgetown community, each donated $25 to attend.
The Georgetown University Jazz Band performed, and
refreshments were donated by the Pepperidge Farm company. |
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interview with NPR
NPR, February
13, 2005
Host Jennifer Ludden checks in with Maryland
doctor Sinnarajah Raguraj, who has just returned from
a mission to help tsunami victims in his native Sri
Lanka. |
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Native
doctors return, roll up their sleeves
The Post-Standard,
February 13, 2005
Oneida doctors Daniel Ratnarajah and Renza
Samad arrived at a refugee camp in northeastern Sri
Lanka last month and found just a handful of people
waiting to be examined. |
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Where
thousands died, some survivors don't want to live
Staten Island Advance,
February 11, 2005
Unable to cope with the pain of losing her three children
to 30-foot-high tsunami waves, one Sri Lankan mother
intended to kill herself.
But Dr. Rajam Theventhiran was able to admit the woman
-- who was two months' pregnant -- to a hospital before
she was able to carry out her plan. |
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The
Tsunami's Smallest Victims
WBNS-10 TV, February
9, 2005
As I tried
to get up and leave the orphanage with 500 children,
the little boy that had been sitting on my lap wouldn't
get down. When he finally did, he grabbed hold of my
khakis with five tiny fingers and started tugging. Can
you imagine having to pry yourself away from that image? |
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A
Woman’s View: Tsunami Aid
CBS 3, February
7, 2005
PHILADELPHIA (KYW) More than 170,000 people were killed
in the tsunami that struck Southeast Asia. Anchor Alycia
Lane meets a local medical student who is going to help
those in need. |
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Medical
team hopes its mission lives on
The News Tribune, February
4th, 2005
The biggest regret of Good Samaritan
Hospital’s tsunami team members – who
returned safely Sunday from a remote village in Sri
Lanka – was that they couldn’t make sure
the good work they started would continue.
Two doctors and three nurses from the Puyallup hospital
set up a rudimentary field hospital in the seaside
village of Aliyavalai on the country’s northeast
coast. The settlement is reached by dirt roads and
has no running water, electricity or regular medical
service.
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Two
Wayne Hospital Staff Fly to Tsunami Torn Region to Aid
Victims
Tri-State News, February 3, 2005
HONESDALE, Pa- Steven Palmer and Susan Harcke, two Physicians
Assistants at Wayne Memorial Hospital (WMH), will leave
March 18th for a remote region of Sri Lanka to help
tsunami victims. |
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WMI
Responds to South Asia Disaster
Water Missions International, February,
2005
On the 27, 4 additional systems
left for Sri Lanka through International Medical Health
Organization. We are continually assembling and shipping
LWTS™ units thanks to the outpouring of support
from the area and throughout the United States. Our
volunteers and donors are making a tremendous impact
on the regions devestated by the tsunami.
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Eastside
doctor went home to help with tsunami relief
Seattle Times, January
27, 2005
Dr. Sumathy Pathy has seen her
share of trauma.
The
Bellevue-based family practitioner endured years of
civil war in her home country of Sri Lanka and survived
medical school there through bouts of bombings and gunfire.
But for some reason, it's the 15-year-old boy from the
tsunami she can't get out of her mind now. |
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MPH
Student Comes through the Tsunami in Sri Lanka
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health,
January 27, 2005
On Dec. 26, Dr. Navaratnasamy ("Paranie")
Paranietharan, an MPH student at the School since
June 2004, was driving with his brother along the
harbor road outside his native city of Trincomalee,
Sri Lanka, when the tsunami hit. Trincomalee, on the
northeast coast of Sri Lanka, is the capitol city
of the region; it sits on a south-jutting isthmus.
There is a bay to the west of this isthmus and the
Indian Ocean to its east. Paranietharan, MBBS, tells
his story below. |
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Tsunami
Stories
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health,
January 25, 2005
After the tsunamis struck, Abigail
Thomas read a story about a physician determined to
get relief to the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Before New
Year's Day, Thomas had signed up with the International
Medical Health Organization to come to the town of
Kilinochchi. Over the Jan. 22 weekend, she spoke with
two newspaper reporters about what she was doing.
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Physicians
step forward in response to tsunami disaster
AMNews, January
24, 2005
Sumathy Pathy, MD, a family physician with a solo practice
in Bellevue, Wash., has temporarily closed up shop.
In early January, little more than a week after the
tsunami in Asia filled news outlets with stories of
thousands dead and millions homeless, the doctor traveled
to her native country of Sri Lanka to do what she could. |
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Return
to Sri Lanka is mission of mercy
THE WASHINGTON TIMES, January
23, 2005
KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka -- The
line of sick and injured tsunami victims snakes through
the refugee camp's makeshift clinic and up to Dr.
Joseph Angelo, who has traveled from Bel Air, Md.,
to treat his native countrymen.
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Md.
M.D. struggles for Tamil patients
The Baltimore Sun, January
23, 2005
MULLEYAVALAI, Sri Lanka - Compared with the setup
Dr. Joseph Angelo has back in Bel Air, Md., the medical
office here was unimpressive, just a faded lime-green
picnic table of slatted wood and a few small chairs
on the bare concrete floor of a schoolroom. |
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Yale
team packs bags for tsunami relief effort in Sri Lanka
New Haven Register, January
16, 2005
Thaiyananthan is a Tamil raised in Oklahoma since age
2, and the Tamils have been fighting the Sinhalese government
for years. |
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Tsunami
calls to area doc
York Daily Record/Sunday News, January
15, 2005
Dr. Vasudevan Tiruchelvam will travel to Sri Lanka soon
to create a bridge between South East Asia and York
County. |
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Local
doctor helping relatives in Sri Lanka
Scranton Times Tribune ,
January 14,
2005
CARBONDALE - Marie Lena couldn't
save her Sri Lankan cousins who died in the tsunami,
but the Carbondale pediatrician is determined to help
those still struggling to survive.
Dr. Lena is part of the International Medical Health
Organization, a group of doctors from Sri Lanka who
send medical supplies and help back to their home
country. Marian Community Hospital and Sacred Heart
Junior Senior High School are now working with Dr.
Lena to raise money for the group.
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Sri
Lankan brings aid to her native land
North Jersey Media Group Inc.,
January 13, 2005
It seems as though everybody is contributing in one
way or another to the South Asian tsunami relief effort.
Area charities, schools, religious houses and hospitals
are collecting bushels of money, supplies and other
needed goods to send to the region.St. Joseph's Regional
Medical Center in Paterson is taking an extra step,
by having its donated supplies hand-delivered to Sri
Lanka.
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Good
Samaritan medical team brings good name to Sri Lanka
The News Tribune, January
12th, 2005
Two doctors and three nurses from Good
Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup will leave Thursday
for Sri Lanka to help tsunami survivors.
The mission will most likely take them to the Tamil
area in the northeast, where political strife has
prevented the quick and effective distribution of
aid. |
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Tsunami
prompts many at medical center to offer aid
Stanford Report, January
12, 2005
The tsunami that devastated Asia has spurred many at
the medical center to lend assistance, with Stanford’s
two hospitals sending desperately needed medical supplies
and physicians volunteering to offer treatment and guidance.
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Healing
in the path of destruction
YSM news and information, January
8, 2005
A team of Yale physicians and health workers see the
tsunami's devastation first-hand as they treat survivors
in Sri Lanka and formulate a long-term plan for aid.
On December 26, the waves came that would kill 30,000
people in coastal areas of Sri Lanka and destroy hundreds
of towns and villages. Five days later, a group of
seven doctors and health professionals from Yale-New
Haven and other area hospitals were on a plane bound
for the capital city of Colombo. |
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Missions
of mercy
King County Journal,
January 6, 2005
Renton's David York, a 1990 Kentridge
High grad who went on to a career in nursing, is now
on the staff at Puyallup's Good Samaritan Hospital.
At
33, he's also a man on a mission.
``I've made it a personal goal to go out and just kind
of help the world in different places,'' he said. |
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City
doctor goes to Sri Lanka for sake of sick, hurt children
t he cannon.ca, January
6, 2005
He loves children, he loves helping people and although
he's lived in North America since he was a teen, Dr.
Nileshwa Senthe never forgot his homeland of Sri Lanka.
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Scourge
is more deadly than war
The Star Ledger, January
6, 2005
Cranbury physician Sri-Sujanthy Rajaram visited her
native war-torn nation of Sri Lanka in August to treat
war victims and train doctors, and felt good about
the progress she made there. |
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Perfectly
matched medical team heads to Sri Lanka
KING 5 News,
January 5, 2005
PUYALLUP, Wash. - A perfectly
matched medical team from Puyallup, Wash., is heading
to help devastated areas of Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankan native, Dr. Senthil Nadaraja, used to vacation
in the very communities now washed out to sea. He
fears many friends may be lost as well. |
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Surgeon
begins relief effort for native land
The Cincinnati Post, January
5, 2005
University of Cincinnati Medical
Center transplant specialist Dr. Thav Thambi-Pillai
says things were bad enough in his native Sri Lanka
before a tsunami killed thousands of people Dec. 26.
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JHM
Response to Tsunami Crisis
Johns Hopkins Medicine, January
5, 2005
Numerous members of the Johns Hopkins community are
involved in coming to the aid of the tsunami survivors,
both as individuals and as members of relief teams. |
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Local
doctor to provide medical aid in Sri Lanka
Reported by ABC7 News,
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
FORT MYERS— In some places, the horror
of survival, hunger and disease, may be worse than
death itself. For the victims, relief can't come fast
enough. A Fort Myers doctor and his family will go
to their native Sri Lanka and help out. |
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Please
click here to listen to Dr. S. Raguraj, President IMHO
interview with NPR
NPR, January
1, 2005 |
NPR's Jennifer
Ludden visits a fund raiser in Bethesda, Md., where
groups of professionals of Sri Lankan heritage make
plans to send aid to help tsunami victims. Their main
concern is for the people in the mostly Tamil northeast
region of Sri Lanka, where decades of civil war have
left the residents weak and malnourished. |
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Local
doctor feels tsunami’s impact on his native land
The Meadville Tribune, January
1, 2005
When Meadville
psychiatrist Gerard Francis sees the carnage caused
by the tsunamis in the Indian Ocean, he does more than
sympathize with the victims. |
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Tamils
in need after tsunami
The Times News, January
1, 2005
MEADVILLE —
Gerard Francis, a psychiatrist at Meadville Medical
Center, can't describe his relief at hearing his father's
voice on the phone. His 71-year-old
father, Leo Francis, lives about a mile and a half
from the eastern shore of Sri Lanka and witnessed
firsthand the devastation of Sunday's tsunami that
killed more than 121,000 people in southern Asia and
Africa.
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Md.
Docs To Help Sri Lankan Tsunami Victims
WBAL-TV 11 News, 4:15
pm EST December 29, 2004
BALTIMORE -- The frantic cell phone calls
came quickly to Dr. Sinnarajah Raguraj, a Bel Air
resident who was visiting friends in New York when
the devastating tsunamis struck his native country. |
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Sri
Lankan emigres pool skills, money
Chigago Tribune (From the Baltimore Sun),
December 29, 2004
Dr. Sinnarajah Raguraj was visiting
friends in New York on Sunday, enjoying a leisurely
breakfast, when he began to get frantic cell phone calls
from all over the country. |
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